DJRustic

Leonajo, I have really wanted to get this started here in Mo.I am from OHIO & they are all over there & in W. Va. I have talked to the gals at the LQS & told them we need to get it started . We have Barn Trails to drive on in Ohio. You go to the Tourist Info place & they will give you the places where the barns are with info of the barn & the quilt. Very nice drive for a day.
Where are you here in Mo.? I am near West Plains. We just had a 60 x40 Gabrel roof barn built 2 yrs. ago. It is black with a copper roof. We have been busy building our log home & haven't gotten the quilt up there yet. Can hardly wait to do it. I will use 2 sheets of the 4x8 to make it 8 x 8. I have that big of an area at the peak. Only thing is you won't be able to see it really well from the road. We set about 1/4 mile back.Only good thing is that when I come up over the hill on the drive way (lane) That would be the first thing I woul,d see. This would suit me just fine. Let's see if we can get a Barn Trail going here in this great state that has so many barns.
Donna, The Rustic Quilter

Rann

Wouldn't a quilt front door be neat?

Jim

There are Barn Quilts up on barns all over around us...today I saw one on a garage. My wife and I have planned to make one in the spring for our 10x10 ft garden tool shed..one side is visible to the road and a 4x4 ft quilt will be perfect on the side...If the neighbors don't like it...there are other things to look at, they can turn their heads...lol

Farm Quilter

I want to do one for my barn...just deciding on which one is the trick. Living on a farm, I have a full-sized barn so I guess I'll need to put two sheets of plywood together to get the size right. Not sure how to hang it up there either - I wonder if the bucket on the tractor can go up high enough?

I just suggested to my DMIL today that we paint a quilt block on her garage door...it currently has a deer, skunk and squirrel painted on it (and we all hate it!).

auntmarie

Wonderful instructions!
Thanks so much for the info!!!!

JAGSD

Here is a site that you may be interested in too. http://www.cre8tivequilter.blogspot.com/
She has pictures of different barn blocks of Wisconsin. She is doing a block a week with them in fabric. She has about 48 or 49 posted as of now.
I started doing them when she started and some of them are just beautiful!

Eleanor

Where I live in Wisconsin, Barn Quilts are popular, in the county I live, there are approx. 100 8X8 foot blocks up on barns. They promote barn tours during the summer months. A local quilt store has a block of the month club going, with blocks from various barns in the county.

Bennett's Grandma

We have been trying to find out how to make barn quilts. What kind of wood, paint, any other supplies do you use?

leonajo

DJRustic, I live just north of Springfield ,Mo. Would love to get something going. Any ideas? Although lots of people seem interested no one has the time? I do have a large barn that I could mount one. U would have to have someone with a lift or line truck to help mount the big ones, as they r very heavy.

leonajo

have the pics but don't know how to add in???????